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Françoise de Maintenon
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“Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.”
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“... three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.”
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“It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.”
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“Hope says to us constantly, 'Go on, go on,' and leads us thus to the grave.”
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“The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.”
Françoise de Maintenon, French second wife of King Louis XIV
(1635 - 1719)
Full name: Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon.